Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-33329977-20180704165632/@comment-39037298-20190529184715

[|Kanzen noberaizu]

Someone's bound to have control over things - whether it's Kamiya, Chayamachi, Goikeda or Morihashi - it doesn't change the work's status and no one's stock ain't gonna change it too. Capcom released it as canon work and it is canon if anything is.

Itsuno couldn't drop ideas from DF in 4, since DF was written afterwards (and as later work it takes the high ground by default tbh), and I'm yet to see those significant deviations 4SE and 5 took from DF (Horde of demons outside Dante's office? Vergil's shadow in his son's demon form? - well, I don't put much stock into these).